"The colour of the skin is less important than the spirit wich moves it."

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“Cultures and societies consumed each other, as well as animals and men.”

“It is an inflexible law that all living things must seek to dominate their environment.”

“There is only the eternal serial moment of now. It contains the total pattern, the complete history.”

“Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.”

“But then history was made by fools.”

“I am rebelling against imprisonment, I am rebelling against tyranny of the mind, I am rebelling against a collection of machines with interchangeable faces. Above all, I am rebelling against my own ignorance and your deliberate deception.”

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"What, then, does He say? "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." We read in Scripture concerning the striving after temporal things, "All is vanity and presumption of sp…"

— Augustine of Hippo

Philosophy354–430

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"After graduation, due to special circumstances and perhaps also to my character, I began to travel throughout America, and I became acquainted with all of it. Except for Haiti and Santo Domingo, I hav…"

— Che Guevara

Politics1928–1967

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"A princelier-looking man never stept thro' a prince's hall."

— Alfred

Psychology1870–1937

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"When I was a boy and refused to speak Spanish , then could not speak Spanish from awkwardness, then guilt, Mexican relatives criticized my parents for letting me “lose it”—my culture, they said."

— Richard Rodriguez

Literature1958

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